Architecture Australia, November 2001
Architecture AustraliaProvocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
Provocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.
SIR JOHN OVERALL Peter Ward remembers the achievements of Sir John Overall, the first commissioner of the National Capital architect from 1975 to 1983 and …
PROPOSED NAME CHANGEThe already instigated “poll” regarding the proposed name change to the RAIA is as unsatisfactory as previous methods adopted to achieve this dubious …
Questioning prevailing aesthetic sensibilities, Donaldson + Warn’s wine facility for Palandri has been the subject of significant controversy. Christopher Vernon investigates the consequences of the investment in the picturesque.
Shelley Penn recently finished her tenure as design director at the NSW Government Architect’s Design Directorate. Gerard Reinmuth looks at the strategies and structures she developed, while Ben Hewett offers a personal account of the process.
Global:local
Jury VerdictThis project refocuses a previously unremarkable campus, giving it two lowscale buildings of great quality and presence.Positioned at an entry to the Newnham campus, …
Archer house
Ansett Sydney domestic terminal redevelopment
Jenkins/Robson House, Sydney
Jury VerdictThe architects have been assiduous in their progressive restoration of this major heritage item, a nineteenth century fort. The fort is situated in the …
Jury VerdictThis mixed-use project sits on an intersection in what the Jury saw as a depressing fragment of the tough industrial landscape of inner-city Richmond. …
Jury VerdictThis modest project resolves the adaptive re-use of a heritage structure through the architectural tactic of built form as urban furniture. The obsolete toilet …
Jury VerdictThe Johnson – Kroon House is made for its place in the sun. A set of three steel framed timber clad pavilions are placed …
Jury VerdictThe success of this small house lies in the way in which an existing holiday cottage has been sandwiched between two independently supported pavilions. …
Jury VerdictThe Visitor Centre in Karijini National Park in the Pilbara is set in one of Australia’s most extraordinary landscapes. This is iron ore country, …
Jury VerdictThis is a remarkably good building. The Jury has made this clear by awarding it both the Colorbond Steel Award and a Commendation for …
Jury VerdictThis award recognises buildings that acknowledge all opportunities to harvest, use, re-use or recycle on-site resources during their life. The award also honours buildings …
Jury VerdictThe Mansion Hotel was, in an earlier life, the setting for Fred Schepisi’s film The Devil’s Playground. In this Arcadian setting it is tempting …
Jury VerdictThe Mansion Hotel was once a seminary built adjacent to an historic mansion set in a vast heritage-listed parkland. Now it is one of …
Jury VerdictThe D House is a profound work, but it has been delivered within a modest budgetary framework. In addition to its inherent architectural strength, …
Jury VerdictThe Line of Lode is the ore body which bisects Broken Hill – the raison d’etre of the town’s creation. This project is composed …
This year’s national jury visited a collection of remarkable buildings across australia. It was a great privilege, and at times a humbling experience, to encounter …
Melbourne Museum, Denton Corker Marshall
SYDNEY: FOOTBRIDGEThe City Projects division of the City of Sydney has recently completed the Ultimo footbridge, a key element of the city’s east-west pedestrian network. …
Settlement: A History Of Australian Indigenous HousingEdited by Peter Read. Aboriginal Studies Press, $33.This publication is a significant contribution to the small handful of existing …
Memory, reflection, contemplation. Naomi Stead looks at Freeman Ryan’s restrained Recollection Room, for the Sisters of St Joseph, and at the contemporary phenomena of the interpretative installation.
InternationalKerry Hill Architects has received an Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Datai Hotel, Malaysia ›› Simon Nummy won an Asia/Pacific regional prize in …
The Beijing/Perth Urban Forum raised more questions than it answered. Justine Clark reports.
Postwar heritage issues and sustainability coincide in a Tasmanian housing competition. Richard Blythe outlines the issues and argues for the retention of Windsor Court as part of a layered urban environment.